The staccato replies coupled with a dialogue that lends an aura of immediacy sets the perfect tone for the relentless, existential questioning by the protagonist, but left me wondering . . . with a more indirect presentation, one less architecturally spare, I think one man's personal dilemma might have been more easily understood as our own.
I think this is great. I smiled at the descriptions of Wittgenstein and Russell. And the repetition of "everything else remains the same" - a good philosophical quip - made me think of Vonnegut with "and so it goes" in Slaughterhouse Five. Neat parallel. Thanks again. Glad to have read it.
The staccato replies coupled with a dialogue that lends an aura of immediacy sets the perfect tone for the relentless, existential questioning by the protagonist, but left me wondering . . . with a more indirect presentation, one less architecturally spare, I think one man's personal dilemma might have been more easily understood as our own.
Good piece. Successive interludes always work best when the question remains the same throughout.
I think this is great. I smiled at the descriptions of Wittgenstein and Russell. And the repetition of "everything else remains the same" - a good philosophical quip - made me think of Vonnegut with "and so it goes" in Slaughterhouse Five. Neat parallel. Thanks again. Glad to have read it.